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<span id="how-to-install-django-on-windows"></span><h1>How to install Django on Windows<a class="headerlink" href="#how-to-install-django-on-windows" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>This document will guide you through installing Python and Django for basic
usage on Windows. This is meant as a beginner&#8217;s guide for users working on
Django projects and does not reflect how Django should be installed when
developing patches for Django itself.</p>
<p>The steps in this guide have been tested with Windows 7 and 8. In other
versions, the steps would be similar.</p>
<div class="section" id="s-install-python">
<span id="install-python"></span><h2>Install Python<a class="headerlink" href="#install-python" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Django is a Python web framework, thus requiring Python to be installed on your
machine.</p>
<p>To install Python on your machine go to <a class="reference external" href="http://python.org/download/">http://python.org/download/</a>, and
download a Windows MSI installer for Python. Once downloaded, run the MSI
installer and follow the on-screen instructions.</p>
<p>After installation, open the command prompt and check the Python version by
executing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python</span> <span class="pre">--version</span></tt>. If you encounter a problem, make sure you
have set the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PATH</span></tt> variable correctly. You might need to adjust your
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PATH</span></tt> environment variable to include paths to the Python executable and
additional scripts. For example, if your Python is installed in
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">C:\Python34\</span></tt>, the following paths need to be added to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PATH</span></tt>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>C:\Python34\;C:\Python34\Scripts;
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<span id="install-setuptools"></span><h2>Install Setuptools<a class="headerlink" href="#install-setuptools" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>To install Python packages on your computer, Setuptools is needed. Download the
latest version of <a class="reference external" href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools">Setuptools</a> for
your Python version and follow the installation instructions given there.</p>
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<div class="section" id="s-install-pip">
<span id="install-pip"></span><h2>Install PIP<a class="headerlink" href="#install-pip" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.pip-installer.org/">PIP</a> is a package manager for Python that
uses the <a class="reference external" href="http://pypi.python.org">Python Package Index</a> to install Python
packages. PIP will later be used to install Django from PyPI. If you&#8217;ve
installed Python 3.4, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span></tt> is included so you may skip this section.</p>
<p>Open a command prompt and execute <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">easy_install</span> <span class="pre">pip</span></tt>. This will install
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span></tt> on your system. This command will work if you have successfully
installed Setuptools.</p>
<p>Alternatively, go to <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html">http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html</a>
for installing/upgrading instructions.</p>
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<div class="section" id="s-install-django">
<span id="install-django"></span><h2>Install Django<a class="headerlink" href="#install-django" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Django can be installed easily using <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span></tt>.</p>
<p>In the command prompt, execute the following command: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">django</span></tt>.
This will download and install Django.</p>
<p>After the installation has completed, you can verify your Django installation
by executing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django-admin.py</span> <span class="pre">--version</span></tt> in the command prompt.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<span class="title">Changed in Django 1.7:</span> <p>In Django 1.7, a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.exe</span></tt> has been introduced, so just use
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django-admin</span></tt> in place of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django-admin.py</span></tt> in the command prompt.</p>
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<p>See <a class="reference internal" href="../topics/install.html#database-installation"><em>Get your database running</em></a> for information on database installation
with Django.</p>
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<span id="common-pitfalls"></span><h2>Common pitfalls<a class="headerlink" href="#common-pitfalls" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">If <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django-admin.py</span></tt> only displays the help text no matter what arguments
it is given, there is probably a problem with the file association in
Windows. Check if there is more than one environment variable set for
running Python scripts in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PATH</span></tt>. This usually occurs when there is more
than one Python version installed.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">If you are connecting to the internet behind a proxy, there might be problem
in running the commands <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">easy_install</span> <span class="pre">pip</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pip</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">django</span></tt>.
Set the environment variables for proxy configuration in the command prompt
as follows:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>set http_proxy=http://username:password@proxyserver:proxyport
set https_proxy=https://username:password@proxyserver:proxyport
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Executing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">django-admin.py</span></tt> opens up a text file. This is due to the text
editor being the default program for <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.py</span></tt> files. This must be changed
to the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python.exe</span></tt> located in the folder where Python is installed.</p>
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